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**Official** South Africa in England 2012

BoyBrumby

Englishman
Just like the final ODI. I'm struggling to think of a format where we might regularly use all of our overs right now.

As for KP, I'm pretty sure that Cook will want him back ASAP. If it's true about that irking any of the others, then that's just too bad for what is supposed to be a professional outfit.
Yeah, more and more inclined to agree. Obviously Pietersen is and always will be a massive wanker, but genius writes its own rules, as the phrase has it.

My word, two boundaries in one over. We're spoilt, suddenly.
 

wpdavid

Hall of Fame Member
Yeah, more and more inclined to agree. Obviously Pietersen is and always will be a massive wanker, but genius writes its own rules, as the phrase has it.
Especially when the top 6 is looking so shoddy. I cba to look up the 2012 averages for Cook, Trott and Bell, but they really can't be pretty. Prior too, I would think. Obvs KP did nowt in UAE, but at least he's produced two match changing innings since then. Now that the dust is settling over the texting, Cook will probably have a long hard look at how the side is most likely to win anything in his first year and a half in charge and I can't see that not including KP.
 
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BoyBrumby

Englishman
Especially when the top 6 is looking so shoddy. I cba to look up the 2012 averages for Cook, Trott and Bell, but they really can't be pretty. Prior too, I would think. Obvs KP did nowt in UAE, but at least he's produced two match changing innings since then. Now that the dust is settling over the texting, Cook will probably have a long hard look at how the side is most likely to win anything in his first year and a half in charge and I can't see that not including KP.
Pretty much it in a nutshell. KP or no we're going to have two unproven members of the top six (Bairstow presumably will be one & there'll be Strauss's replacement too), so no need to make it three.

Would actually guess Prior has done ok this year tho, seemed to pass 50 as often as not versus SA.

Meanwhile Botha is surprisingly camp, isn't he?

EDIT: Would've guessed wrong. KP the only batsman to average 40 for the calendar year in tests.
 
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Senile Sentry

International Debutant
Pretty much it in a nutshell. KP or no we're going to have two unproven members of the top six (Bairstow presumably will be one & there'll be Strauss's replacement too), so no need to make it three.

Would actually guess Prior has done ok this year tho, seemed to pass 50 as often as not versus SA.

Meanwhile Botha is surprisingly camp, isn't he?

EDIT: Would've guessed wrong. KP the only batsman to average 40 for the calendar year in tests.
Wow, thats a dire stat. Even I was under the impression that prior had better numbers than that. Just seemed to get runs whenever Eng were in a hole. Still not sure why he is not in the limited overs squad
 

benchmark00

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Wow, thats a dire stat. Even I was under the impression that prior had better numbers than that. Just seemed to get runs whenever Eng were in a hole. Still not sure why he is not in the limited overs squad
It is what it is. Prior gets talked up as some god of the wicketkeeper batsman world, but the only problem is, he's not very good.
 

stumpski

International Captain
Du Plessis is bad enough to play for England.

No, really.
Sssshh ... he'll probably discover he has a Welsh grandmother. "A man with no nick at all" announced Hussain as he came in. For a moment there I thought he was talking about Gladstone Small.
 

BoyBrumby

Englishman
Sssshh ... he'll probably discover he has a Welsh grandmother. "A man with no nick at all" announced Hussain as he came in. For a moment there I thought he was talking about Gladstone Small.
Lol. Nass using the saffer pronounciation for the overseas market, clearly.
 

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